Master RAG engineering

Build production-ready RAG systems from fundamentals to cutting-edge research. Learn through interactive labs and real-world challenges.

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Lessons

268+

Challenges

81

Modules

15

Phases

13-Phase Curriculum

From vector math to production ops.

Interactive Labs

Write code, run tests, instant feedback.

Decision Playbooks

Matrices for models, LLMs, guardrails.

Project Certificates

Earn certificates for completed tracks.

New in 2026Latest research techniques

Advanced RAG Architectures

Master cutting-edge techniques from the latest research papers.

MiA-RAG

Mindscape-Aware Context

Hierarchical summarization for global document understanding

QuCo-RAG

Corpus-Based Uncertainty

Trigger retrieval using pre-training corpus statistics

HiFi-RAG

Hierarchical Filtering

Multi-stage filtering for maximum context precision

Graph-O1

MCTS Reasoning

Monte Carlo Tree Search for graph exploration

What's New

Recent additions to the platform

Voice RAG

Phase 7

Audio-based retrieval and generation

MCP Integration

Phase 5

Model Context Protocol support

Project Certificates

Projects

Earn certificates for completed tracks

Peer Reviews

Projects

Community feedback on submissions

Your Learning Journey

13 phases from fundamentals to production

Foundations

12

Pre-Retrieval

48

Retrieval

19

Query Transforms

15

Advanced Retrieval

10

Post-Retrieval

20

Grounding & Safety

19

Agentic RAG

25

Graph RAG

8

Multimodal

11

Fine-tuning

7

Production Ops

30

Evaluation Ops

38

A production RAG system, step by step.

Scroll through the pipeline to understand how each component works together.

01 · Offline
active

Ingest with traceability

Parse → chunk → attach metadata → stable chunk IDs. Debuggability beats cleverness.

  • Stable chunk_id + doc_id + offsets
  • Structure-aware chunking (headers, tables, code)
  • Dedup + versioning so re-indexing is safe
02 · Online

Maximize recall (hybrid + fusion)

Default production strategy: BM25 + dense embeddings fused with RRF.

  • Metadata filters first (tenant/doc_type/date)
  • Hybrid retrieval (BM25 + dense)
  • RRF fusion to avoid score-normalization pitfalls
03 · Online

Maximize precision (rerank)

Rerank top‑20/50 candidates with a cross‑encoder, keep the best 5–10.

  • Reranker cascade: cheap shortlist → expensive rerank
  • MMR diversity to reduce redundancy
  • Lost-in-the-middle ordering
04 · Online

Ground answers (and refuse safely)

Citations, refusal policies, injection/PII defenses — production hardening isn't optional.

  • Citation validation (no out-of-range cites)
  • Refuse on insufficient context
  • Sanitize prompt injection + redact PII before LLM

RAG pipeline (scrollytelling)

step 1 / 4
OFFLINE · ingestionONLINE · query timeParseChunk + EmbedIndexQueryRetrieveRerankAnswer

Scroll left side — diagram reacts as pipeline moves from ingestion to retrieval, reranking, and safety.

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